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A standout success story this month has been of anti-caste activist, rapper and researcher Sumit Samos Turuk, who managed to raise Rs 37 lakh to fund his MSc in Modern South Asian Studies in Oxford within a day, of which Rs 27 lakh came within a span of three hours. Similarly, on Milaap, the first five months of 2021 have seen 9,200 campaigns related to education raise Rs 6.6 crore, compared with 11,000 campaigns which mopped up Rs 10.3 crore in all of 2020. Most of them are for educating the underprivileged but a large chunk is people raising money for themselves," says Zaheer Adenwala, co-founder of Ketto.

"Education as a cause is definitely maturing - we've seen the number of education-related fundraisers jump 300% in 2020-21 over the previous year. Leading crowdfunding platforms Milaap and Ketto confirm that the number of campaigns for education has seen a significant jump over the previous year. And he's not unusual: a scroll through your social media timeline would bring up multiple students trying this route to fund a postgraduate degree abroad this admission season. This time, he's trying a different tack: crowdfunding. The clock is ticking for law graduate Abhishek Vyas to raise Rs 31 lakh he needs to do his MPhil from the University of Cambridge, an offer he declined last year due to lack of funds.